Configuring a new drawing

- [Instructor] Obviously, if you are just starting out … you need to create come new drawings … before you can actually open them. … I think you'll find most drafters tend to copy … and duplicate files and then modify them to their needs … rather than start completely from scratch. … However, you need to start from somewhere, … and if you set up your drawing with the appropriate … information, you can save a file as a template … to start from in the future with everything … just how you need to start. … To start a new file, you can simply type new … down the command line, or go to file, new drawing. … From here we can get a listing of all of the drawing … templates we have available to us. … And it's just a matter of choosing the one … you want to start with. … If you want a basic blank canvas, that has no layers, … layouts, or any other information, … you can use acat.dwt. … If you want to see some templates of sheet sets … or drawings with some sheet layouts and layers already set, …